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and a little area on the outside of the reserve When the federal government closed the deep water areas in 2002 we lost 80 percent of the reef areas that we traditionally fished The rockfish action in the reefs has taken longer to get started than normal due to abnormally cold water temperatures off the Santa Cruz coast The water is only 50 degrees off

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